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^*73^ w ? ' :' *'V s * ' • wmmm AT?' BS fnrg paindcam VM f'.til, ttfitor art Puklitltr. } McHEKaTt tI,LTUOI' MM|£ 'y-j. ' /» At) r __ . f>>!V i\ 1vv '%*" *<11 yon be aa true as the stun abdM, •• <?" * ,> ' f' «ct in Honor, with Love for Low. rk^ J , Jtf my h<?»rl should wako. and call you Klttt J|^/'-,;'!t.v.'{iv".V WonJd your own breathe sigh for High? jfjVi ' !m *•• ^fcv>u!ii yonr everv wonl and action prota g'l.ii- , ' 'Still sweet ag th« > ears roll by V ' y<Pi- would you weave in vour silken net . ||*«(. ' wtoe wilea of that heartiegg girl --coqn<#K|f: | '\ 1 Too now Hie fair aa the buds of May, , * * '• v>' pr % ? n < _£ Wirh cheeks llfee h wild ros<> bloom ; - fel4» ®nt Love will live wbou your hair is gi^y IES^ *I ^ » -'4 And brighten the cloning gloom, ff, , * ' tf you only say lhat your hesrt is true-- y ,Xhat jou love iny heart.ae uiy lioart lev If' \ Hut If yon deem it an idle jest, 0 'vy 'AS.'S#'--^ ^"To Win my heart with a He; .'.. * ' / laugh ftt my life's first love afmhestr- ?;--y S'jvm*. - ^ Why, then I will say •(lood-bv." ^i p r rv , SV>r Ijr,ve grows bitter when st ent in TMI(r£ ft'-;.'. „'V. . itad files far from a coquette's chain. <>rf; 5 : te^'s&vA .«< - Viwiko«J Blake. LOVE'S QUESTION, fan think It fun to win my heart' M> fling it in acorn a°ide? yon think it fan to make it i J then i :11 isr $IIE COACHMAN'S STORY. Itwas my first regular: ptafe irii, *hd proud enough I wfts,' as yduhiav believe I had helped groom the • horses at Mr. Leslie's siab'e, and I had lent a hand at odd jobs around Mr. Warrington's fishing camp, but I never went as regular coachman tiutil old Major Juggieford engaged " Hie at $20 a month and my board. ! With two black livery suits a year J thrown in. . You may guess how pleased I was; j the first ten-dollar bill I sent to mother up in Toronto, and me only two-and-twenty; but I was always old-looking for my years, and had a steady way with me. It wasn't the liveliest place in the frorld at the Major's--J uggleford Hail, they called it--and the only 'bit of life about it was Trippy, Miss Gertrude's maid. "Well, Sam," said she, in that pretty aggravating Way of hers, "how do you like your new place?"' "It seems about as wide awake as A deaf and dumb asylum, miss," Mid L ' 'Don't Call tne miss, Sam," giggled etoe. "I'm only a servant like \our- *elf." •'You are a very good one to look '«t," said 1. m"Sorry I can't return the compli- tnent." she said, her black eyes spark- li&g. After that we were very good friends, although old Mrs. Mobbs, tie housekeeper, was always plotting and planning to keep us apart; and it was through Trippy that I first heard the love story between Mr. Warrington and Miss Gertrude. "Do you mean to say you never Jcitew it before?" said Trippy. (Her i$al christian name was "Tryphena.") ••Sot a word," said I. f ,"Ob, then, you ain't going to help y?" "Help yoa do what'r" said I. "Oh, stupid!" cried Trippy, with • fill impatient shake of her curly head. *<Help to circumvent the old Turk, to be sure. Major .luggleford, lmean. Ebr, you see, he's made up his mind that Miss Gertrude shall marry Doc­ tor Darwin, who's old enough to be her father, and he's got a wart on the end of his nose. But he's rich, you see, and poor Mr. Warrington has got nothing but his handsome face pad merry black eyes." w Here was a full-blown love story, to %e sure--and I wasn't long in giving Trippy to understand that I was with her and Miss (Jertrude and Mr. War- lington. heart and soul. But, after all, what was there that I could do? Major J uggleford never really trusted me. after he heard that 1 had lived with Mr. Warring- ton, and I had no chance at all to show my sympathy. But I used to vather fresh water-lillies for her "But I'll settle hi* business for Mm! Trippv, pack your young lady's things at once. I'll take her to Saratoga, where Dr. Darwin drinking the waters for the benefit of his liver. She shall be married out of hand!" "Papa!" shrieked Miss Gertrude, turning as pale as ashes. " "I mean it!" said the Maior, stamp- log around in a fury. "Lose no time. The stage comes past the gate at 9 o'clock to-night. We can get the sleeper at Callentown and oe In Sira- toga to-morrow morning, and you shall be Mrs.. Doctor Darwin in less than twenty-four hours! I won't be circumvented like this--I won't be defied--1 won't be set at naught by any one alive!" Miss Gertrude burst out into tears and sobs that might have melted a heart of stone. Trippy wrung her hands. . "But see how it's raining, sir," said she. "My young lady isn't fit to " "She's neither sugar or salt!" in­ terrupted the Major, still spinning around like an elderly peg-top. "Pack up, 1 say, and lose no time.' Of course, this was very hard. Even old.Mrs. Mobbs owned as much as that. Trippy went about, looking as if she'd lost her best friend, and I gathered a double lot ot waterlilies when I went out on the lake to catch fish for dinner. "It'll be the last she'll get," said 1. "And only too think, she'll never see the fox go through the tricks I'm teaching him!" "What's that you're bringing here, Sam?" the Major thundered, as he met me face to face on the garret stairs. v I nearly dropped my load in my consternation. "It's Tnppy's trunk, sir," I stam­ mered. "Take it back again!" roared the Major. "She won't need it.** "Sir!" gasped L "Take--it--back--again?" said he. "Ain't I going, sir?" cried Trippv, who was waiting at the foot of the Stairs. "No, you're not!" said the Major. "Wno's to take care of her, sir?" persisted Trippy. "She'll have a husband to look af­ ter her soon," said the Major, smiling a grim smile. "Until then I'm quite capable of caring for uer." I took the trunk back,, hut as I returned along the hall I could hear Miss Gertrude sobbing, and Trippy, pool soul, trying to comfort her. And all of a sudden the pitiful sounds stopped. "She must be feeling better, poor young lady!" thought I. "I only wish we could get word to Mr. Frank!" I don't know that I ever was out in a worse thunder-storm than when all decorated witii mj water-lilj buds. i -»> i There, before our eyes, stood • Mia Gertrude dressed in white* with Mr. ^Warrington at her side. "We wish to be married, sir," said he. "We are bQth fully of arfe, and there is no possible objection. Please proceed at once." And then and there they were mar­ ried. Not until they had driven off in th« carriage that was waiting at the back entrance gate did I collect my senses sufficiently to ask Trippy,-- "But who was that went in the stage coach with Major J uggleford! Eh, Trippy?" "Oh, Sam, you dreadful goose!" said Trippv. "It was the lay figure!" --Yankee Blabe. A Valuable Kleotrteal Mufetjr Myatem. The application of electricity to safety devices in banks and other buildings has reached a degree ol efficiency that is simplv marvelous. In a safety deposit vault in Boston the electrical devices employed con­ sists of a triplicate system of relays, recording instruments, test boards, and time stamps. One instrument is placed in the vault itself, another in the superintendent's office, and the third at the police headquarters of the city. These three sets of instru­ ments work in unison or independ­ ently as necessity demands, and m the latter case the two other sets are quiescent. The doors of the various vaults, storerooms, street entrances, gratings under the sidewalks, etc., are all so connected electrically that it is impossible for any person to ef­ fect an entrance without giving an aiarm, aim the movements of every official in the pla6e are recorded, so that every possibility of dispute or shirking of responsibility is obviated. To illustrate the wonderful perfec­ tion of this system, the following record for one night between 4 p. m. and 9 a. m. next day is given: "Vaults closed," "Door to Milk street closed," "President left," "Mats taken up." "Door closed," "Door under reading room closed," "Carpen­ ter went out," "Armed watchman came on duty," "Superintendent left," "Another armed watchman went off duty," "Ice taken in," "Washwoman came on duty," "Watchman came on day duty," "Night watchman left the office," "Door under reading room opened,'^ •'Office boy came on duty," "Mail taken in," "Stenographer came on duty," "Superintendent came," "Vault opened," "Door opened for business." To Restrict Immigration. An important meeting of steamship agents was held a few days ago in Hew York to decide on some efficient the stage coach stopped at the gates means for controlling immigration, of J uggleford Hall that night It was dark as pitch, j^nd the wind blowing so that my stable lanterh wasn't a bit of use. The Major went first with a valise in each hand and a big mackintosh that flew open like the sails of a shipi I followed after with the trunks on a barrow, and Miss Gertrude came last, with Trippy almost carrying her along. with especial reference to contract laborers. It was decided to instruct all the sub-ticket agents in Europe to ask twenty-three questions of all pur­ chasers of steerage tickets, which they must answer befor.e they can se­ cure passage. The questions are name, sex, residence, nationality, oc­ cupation or trade, married or single; if family, names and ages of wife and children; destination; if passage paid "I'm afraid your new traveling j through to destination; who has fur- dress will be clean spoiled, miss," I nished monev for passage, if any por- j tion is contributed by Government or said Trippy. "Hang the traveling dress!" said the Major, stepping plump into a puddle of water, fo« the gravel walk was like a lake. "Come on, Gertrude! What are you waiting for? Don't you see that the stage is here?" "Look alive!" bawled the stage driver. And between them, he and Trippy got Miss Gertude into the back seat. There was just room for one passenger inside, and the Major was to go on the box, storm and all. •'If it it was raining pitchforks and pork-barrels I'd go all the same!" said the Major. -I can't afford to every.morning--Trippy took these to j rnn, a.ny more risks--eh? Are we all her room--and I set myself to work ! •^re ^ou comfortable, my to tame a young fox, that -caught in a trap, for her. There Wasn't anything else I could do. 1 did not see Miss Gertrude cntil I had been nearly a week at Juggieford Ball; "She's delicate, Trippv, ain't she?" •aid I. "Looks like a flower that has grown in the shade." - "She ain't a bit well," Trippy an­ swered. "Nor she won't be, as long they torment her so. It's a burn­ ing shame, to ask a girl to marry an ok* foggy like Doctor Darwin, while, all this time, her Heart 'Mr. Frank Warrington!' ha< dear?" But Miss Gertrude never answered him a word, She sat silent and drooping. "Are you crowded there?". pursued he. " "Time's up, sir!" said the stage driver, looking at his big watch. "Sulky, eh?" said parochial authorities or by any char­ itable organization; if passage is pre­ paid in America, give name and ad­ dress of sender; if in good health, if any members of family coming here are cripples or subject to any disease, mental or physical, if any of the members of family coming here ever been in prison or an asylum or any public institution, what relatives in America; have you or any of your rel­ atives fof vou made a"ny agreement for you to work for any person, firm, or corporation in America? if such agreement exists give particulars and names of parties for whom you are to work; what occupation will be fol­ lowed In America, if ever been in America before, if so, when; how t much money do you expect to have | on reaching your destination? if can i read or write, if a polygauiist. "It is that'.'" said I, with emphasis, v "Oh, do be careful, Sam," said . Jrippy--for I was helping to set the liudio to rights, moving the big Carved cabinet and taking down the window draperies, that were faded dfcKiQst white in the sun, and at the -HBime moment I gave a yell like a UKUdliicIian. &•. / Whafs this?" said L "Is it 4' itfive?" '! -• drippy nearly doubled up laughing. Vph, Sam!" said she, "you'll be the ^eath of roer Don't look so fright­ ened--don't! It's only a lay figure!" t "And whit isa lay figure?" said I, peeping as far away as possible from the queer-looking, lanky thing, with. Its head hanging over on one side, as 4f its neck was broken, and its'hands drooping straight down. "It's what Miss Gertrude dresses ;*ip to faint pictures fiotu," said she,' when she could get breath enpugh to The Center of Population. By the census of 1890 the center of Silver! population is in latitude 39 degrees 111 minutes aod 9 seconds north, and the Major l°n8itude 85 degrees 32 minutes and 9 Well, keeo on if it amuses you!' scconds west- about twenty miles east Yes, coachy,*I'm all right!" I of Columbus, Ind., and about fifty- Arid he scrambled up to the box-! ®J* miles *est Jy south of Cincinnati, seat with a good deal more activity ' position of the center of popula- belongs to than I'd supposed him to be capable of. shrilly to- we ' "Good-bvc, Miss Gertrude! called Trippy. But the wheels and thunder gcther made such a noise that couldn't catch the answer. I "Don't cry, Trippy," said I. "Take j my arm back to the house--the lan-1 tern has blown out, and- the wind is ! fit to take you off your feet I'll leave the barrow here until to-morrow I morning. Don't crv, Trippy! It's a with shame, so it is: but----" She jerked her arm away from me. "Sam," she said, in a choked voice, '£o for the minister at once." "The which?" said L "The minister, I say: are you deaf?" "Who's ill?" said I, with my mouth wide open. "Is it Mrs. Mobbs?" "Don't stop to ask iaiotic ques­ tions'.'1' said Trippy, stamping her feet. "Quick! Kun! It may be too late!" When Trippy got one of those ivnswer.JOe, don't mean to say 1 breezy Ways with her, it was no use thatjou uever.siiwpne before?" 'opposing her will. The only thing Neverp said I, keeping as far' was to obey; and I run down the tion is reachea in this manner: A point was taken as near as possible to the actual center of population, aod a parallel of latitude and a meridian of longitude were drawn through it. The population of the country was then grouped in square degrees, and the number of the popu­ lation in each square degree multi­ plied by the number of miles from the assumed meridian, or by the num- j bcr or degrees from the assumed parallel. The products of the first I multiplication were east and west ) moments, of the second multiplica- j tion north and sout«i moments. The i difference between the sums of the j north and south moments, divided by the number of the total population, showed whether the assumed parallel was north or south oi the real center of population, and similarly it was ascertained whether the assumed meridian was east or west Qt the actual center; and from the results, tne parallel fcnd meridian of the actual center of population were de­ duced. BATTLE J WITH INDIANS. ;.away,tepo*s"ib}4 for it seemed as if ? »#t mi^ht become alive any minute,, and uiadp me think of the spooks old CJranny Magilton used to talk aoout ^ "A nd does Miss Gertrude paint rgal , '/^pictures?"--.. " ' "The prettiest you ever set eyes ff I' <v«n," said Trippy. "If only her spirit W^s equal to it, a fid she wasn't badg- short cut through the woods as fast as ever I could, after the Reverend Mr Doty. He was just shutting uo his house for the night, but he put on his waterproof coat and came with me, when I represented the urgency of Trippy's message. "It most be Mrs. Mobbs,". said he. Telegraphing at Sea.' The telephete, or sea-t 'legraphing Instrument, which has been placed at the disposal of the United States Government, and the working of whfcli will be shown at the World's Fair, is well spoken of by experts who hive exaiuiued it The instrument consists of a series ot wires and elec­ trical connections operated by a key­ board, by which 106 incandescent •f «red about that old Darwin fudge, .| "She has been anxious about her soul I fights are controlled and madetopriv -I'm dead sure she'd be a great artist!" i thidt long time. My sermons have duce the signals of the Morse alnha- But now'that it's all over, I don't U3r- mind saving that I was glad to carry the draperies out to the back lawn, where they were to be dusted, and so «et rid of the sight of that lay figure. It was spooky, no mistake about it. The next day there was a great rumpus at th^, hall. Somehow the Major'had contrived to get hold, of Mr. Frank's lo^e-letters. ' Sohe's hanging ahout the pre- done her some good, it would appear. Continual droppings wears the hard­ est stone!" It was raining now harder than ever, but we managed to reach the old Hall. Trippy was waiting for us at the door. "Come in!" she cried. "Quick!" "Is It Mrs. Mobbs?" said the min­ ister. "Is she under conviction?" The next minute Tippy flung open 'istie? Tlie shiftless, good-for-1 the library dpor. It wa§ a blage of iff young vagabond!" said he. I waxlights there, arid the table was signals of the Morse alpha bei The wires number over 5,000, and occupy a space of only 11 by 12 Inches. The dots of the telegraph characters are represented by two illuminated lamps, the spaces by twelve unilluminated, and dashes by twelve illuminated lamps. The in­ ventor claims that 32 canjlie-pq^er lamps can be &een at u distance ol ten to fifteen miles. 'A : -rw " A # • A wisb man «an become t fiwri lo a month by talking too much. 0«n. fonjrth Telia or a Memorable Con­ flict with Slonx. "It was in the summer and fall of 186$ that the northern Cbeyennes and Sioux carried terror along the bor­ der," said Gen. G. A. Forsyth at Den­ ver to a correspondent to the New York Star. "They killed many set­ tlers and harrowed all the little set­ tlements Into the wildest excitement. I was then on Major-Gen. Sheridan's staff, and asked that I might taae the field to meet the savages. I Was given a command of fifty scouts, hav­ ing under me Lieut. Beecher, a nephew or Heftry Ward Beecher, and Brevet Brigadier-General McCall.who acted as my first sergeant. Most of the men had seen service in the re- hellion, and were good shots and thoroughly to be depended upon. "On the 9th of September we started from old Fort Harker, worked up to Fort Hayes, to Sheridan, Kan., and to Fort Wallace. We started with seven days' supplies on the In­ dian trail. After following the trail thirty miles it scattered over the prairie, and we were obliged to circle for three days before we struck the trail again. We found where five warfiors had slept at a wickiup,and soon we came upon a broad trail, which indicated that thousands of Indians were ahead of us." Oa the afternoon of September 14, the party found itself out of supplies and at 4:30 o'clock went into camp. The spot chosen was where the Arickaree enters the Republican River. In the middle of the channel was a sandy island surrounded on all sides by water three or four inches deep. sThere were no river banks to cut 9of the view of the surrounding country, which seemed to meet the sky on all sides, the surface being a rolling prairie. "During the night I arose several times to inspect the guard, and be sure that we should not be taken by surprise," continued the General. "We tethered our horses and mulea in a circle around us, and every man- was directed to dig a hole In the sand, as a defense against the arrows and bullets of the savages. At day­ break on the following morning the trouble began. A dozen Indians first appeared, with dried beef and bells tied to their horses, making a noise so as to stampede our animals. I« took a shot at the savages, ana called on the men to saddle up. Before we could mount the whole surrounding country seemed to grow Indians. "They appeared innumerable and seemed to come from every quarter. They kept up a running fire all day, killing all our horsfc^but not coming near enough for us to do much dam­ age to them. Toward evening how­ ever, one of our men killed Roman Nose, their leader, This threw them into confusion, and they withdrew;" The next day the Indians renewed the attack, but made no more mounted charges. During the night Gen. Forsyth had dispatched two scouts who were to attempt to reach Fort Wallace, 110 miles away. They crawled out of camp in their stock­ ing feet, The second night another detail of scouts was sent in the same direction. The partv subsisted on horse and mule meat, but on the fourth day it began to putrify, and for four long days not a mouthful of foodj was-found in the camp. Frcm the actions of the Indians it was plaid that they were preparing for retreat, but, fearing an ambuscade, the party remained intrenched upon the island. On the morning of the eigth day t le first column of the relief corps was visibler on the hills, and never did the eyes of despairing men rest on a more gratifying sight Four troops arrived from as many directions with- Fn two hours. Gen. Forsyth was car­ ried to Fort Leavenworth, and it was two years before he recovered from the sufferings of those dreadful seven days. "It was not until 1871 that I learned the true strength of the In­ dians," said he. "In my report to the Government I estimated the force at 500, but in Denver I met a Chey­ enne chief who carried a bullet in his lungs as a memento of the battle. He said there were 970 warriors in the Indian camp,,$nd that their loss during and immediately after the battle was seventy-five men. In his words the wounded were 'heaps.* Had we attempted to leave the island he said we would certainly have been destroyed in an ambush which had been prepared for our reception." What Her Keal Name Was. A woman writer who has just finished her first attempt at author­ ship, which met with a remarkable success, was encountered Wednesday at a famous club dinner by a gorge­ ously dressed woman. The latter ex­ tended her hand and kissed her, ex­ claiming in a heroic and sentimental style! "I am sp glad, dearest darl­ ing, to welcome you to our ranks." The peculiar appearance of the wo­ man rather amused the authoress, and she replied: "Thank you, but may I ask you who you are and what work bears your name?" "Certainly, my dear. Have vou ever hoard of Jane Austin, the New England authoress? Well, 1 am not Bhe. But have you ever heard of Jean Ingelow, the poetess?" I ' "Yes," was the reply, "but surely, you are not she." " V "No, I am hot she- But havfe you! ever heard of Elizabeth Phelps Ward?" ? ^ "My! Yes, indeed, .and admired) her workvirreatly. *Buw^-4*** ! Before, she could finish the erratic, individual made a large bow and re-; plied; "Well. I am ^Mrs. Austin^ Phelps Ingel3W, and.I have 4 book out on evefything that¥ women do,T and I am said t6 combine the best lit­ erary style of Jane Austin, Jein Inge- low. ana Elizabeth Phelps Ward." The young authoress, Vrhen she could break away from her victim, ordered a cab and drov6 through the quiet lanes which border the Bloom- ingdale Asylum for a few pleasant^ peaceful moments of reflection.-- New York Herald. awl sttnde can be produced, thus caus­ ing the sunrise to grow impercepti­ bly. Another use of the electric cur­ rent made lit the same time Is in representing the explosion of a bomb. A paper shell contains, just enough powder to explode and make a flash. This is fired by electricity, while at the same momont another circuit con­ trolled by the same key sets off a gun behind the scenes, which furnishes the necessary noise. Considerable "There isn't much of any dfiMce between "occupied' and 'busy,' is there, pa?" inquired Jake Potter, who was studying his "definitions" tor the next lesson, "i should say," answered his father, "that there is about as much difference betwixt 'em as there is walttin' up hill an* slidin' daown. I cal'lat-e you won't git an extry high mark to-morrer ef yon can't hit off no better'n that, Jake." "Well, what is the difference, I'd like to know?" said the crestfallen Jake. "Alnt Abe Hawkln's okkypat'on plumbin'?" inquired Mr. Potter. Jake admitted that it was. "Hev you ever seen him busy?" asked the father. "Never, pa," ^responded Jake, promptly. "An' I've heerd that Jeems Speers was so 'okkypied' he couldn't find time to fetch in the wood for his wife, when he sets by the haour daown V to the store. I reckon you couldn't hardly call him a busy man. "An' you, Jake," continued Mr, Potter, turning to bis son for the last illustration, "I've known you naow an' again t' be okkypied turnin' som­ ersets in them hoop-pole shavin's back o' th' wood liaouse that you couldu't hear me call ye no moie'n ef you was deef, though I'd holler till I was all hoarsed up; an' yet It- never appeared t' me as ef you, was precilKily busy them times." Civil Marriage In Hungary. The Roman Catholic priesthood in Hungary are making a vigorous fight against the proposed institution of compulsory civil marriage, and are matting special efforts to enlist the peasant women, whose infiuerce is very potent upon the ballot-box upon their side. The correspondent of a London paper says: "The married peasant women are being told by the clerical agitators who arc visiting the villages in all parts of the kingdom that after the introduction of civil marriage the church ceremony by which they were married to their husband will be invalidated; that they will accordingly have to renew the contract before the civil authori­ ties; and that their husbands will then be at liberty to refuse to renew the marriage tie with them, and will doubtless avail themselves of the op­ portunity of choosing younger and prettier partners in place of theii old wives, who will, of course, be turned out of door& These stories are of course miserable fabrications, but they work none the less effectively on the ignorant but impressionable, fe­ male population of the rural districts. Indeed it is reported that among the women in not a tew lonely hamlets and villages, which are never reached by the newspapers refuting the false­ hoods, these baseless tales have pro­ duced terror and consternation," Bis Worst Enemy. He was a picturesque personality, says the Detroit Tribune. There were large, irregular apertures in the back of his coat and his whiskers were of the sort that betokened an imj patience of all restraint. He had lived in the world many years longer, apparently, than the lady who had brought him three broken doughnuts and a chicken bone on a dirty plate. He tried to look grateful, and be it said was superficially successful. "Thank you ma'am," he murmured defferentially. She gazed upon him and her feat­ ures sottened. "Poor fellow," she mused, "you are undoubtedly your own worst enemy." He started, pondered a moment, and shook his head. 4'No," he rejoined deliberately, "I am not." "What----" The lady was interested now. "--then is your deadliest fee?" He turned into her face a piteous glance. " ••Ma'am--'* • Involuntarily he rccoiled towards the door. "--mv worst enemy is the cooking school." Dropping one of the pieces of doughnut upon the plate with a sharp, metallic sound, he fled. One of the New York City theaters has brought out an electrical sunrise. A curved screen, part of which is made of gauze, so that the light may shin^ through, extends avound the stage, and behind It is an elaborate svstom of incandescent, lamps. The controlling 'apparatus is' so graduated that flftv different degree* of fight Thrilling Escape From Quicksand. "When I was out on the Platte in 1872," said a military man to a west­ ern reporter, "I had an experience that I wonder didn't turn my hair gray. I was camped all alone on the side of that historic stream and had occasion to go for some water to boil my beans in. "First thing I knew I stepped plumb into a quicksand. 1 knew what was up at once, and knew that I was gone, and I am willing to ad­ mit that I was scared. In fact, that wa% how I came to escape. As I stood there with that horrible sand dragging, dragging, dragging at me like some mpnstcr 1 turned colder and colder. "I)o what I could my teeth would keep on chattering, though I knew that every vibration of my jaw was shaking me further down into that ready made grave. And I grew colder and colder. "Suddenly I noticed that I had stopped sinking." ' "Struck bottom, eh?" "Bottom, nothing! I had grown so cold from horror--and fear--;I may as well admit it--that I had actually frozen the water in the quicksand--frozen the whole business solid, sir, solid." Fartly of Cork. There is a new kind of pavement made partly of cork. Cork and sev- efaJ other inirrclients are pressed iti to blocks, which are said to make a pavement at once moderate in cost, durable, silent, uon-absorbent, and affording a good foothold for horses. Smith* In the Senate. Already are the alert and enter­ prising paragraphers qq the trail of James Smith, Jr., of New Jersey, as though it were a phenomenal thing for a Suatc to be represented in the United States Senate by a member of the multitudinous Smith family. Yet, strange as it may seem to the dis­ coverers of the phenomenon, although the Smiths have not been numerous of late years in the upper house of Congress, the Washington Post says, they have contributed several notable members to that body, among whom were the brilliant but somewhat ec­ centric Delazon Smith, one of the first Senators from Oregon, who died before the expiration of his first term: Truman Smith of Connecticut, who was one of the judges of the Court of Arbitration in New York appointed by President Lincoln under the treaty of 1862 with Great Britain relative to the African slave trade, and Nathan Smith, also of Connecticut, who was a man of great ability and died in the City of Washiugton in 183(L Then there were Israel Smitn of Yermont, who served in the Senate from 1801 to 1807; William Smith of South Carolina, 1816-23 and 1826-31; Samuel Smith of Maryland, 1803-15; Perry Smith of Connecticut, 1837-43; Oliver H. Smith of Indiana, 1837-48, and Daniel Smith of Tennessee, 1805- 09. The immortal name of John Smith also appears upon the records of the Senate, there having been two of them in that distinguished cham­ ber at the same time--John Smith ot New York, from 1804 to 1813, and John Smith of Ohio, from 1803 to 1808. It will, therefore, be seen that the United estates Senator-elect from New Jersey, so far as nomenclature is concerned, is not without illustri­ ous precedents. Silvering Olaaa. ' .The following method of silvering glask is, according to an exchange, said to be eminently successful, and is largely adopted in many manufac­ tories: There are two solutions used in the process, known respectively as the reducing and silvering solutions. To prepare the first,dissolve 12 grains of Rocheile salts in 12 ounces of wa­ ter, and boil; then add, while boil­ ing, 16 grains of nitrate of silver dis­ solved in an ounce of water, and con­ tinue the boiling for 10 minutes after which add sufficient to make 12 ounces. To prepare the second, dis­ solve 1 ounce of nltra of silver in ten ounces of water; then add liquid am­ monia until the brown precipitate is nearly, but not quite, all dissolved; then add one ounce of alcohol and sufficient water to make 12 ounces. Distilled water should be used in making these solutions. When both preparations are read", take equal parts of both solutions and mix them thoroughly; then lay the glass face down on the top of the mixture while still wet, the glass being carefully cleaned with soda and well rinsed with clean water. About 2 drachms of each solution will be sufficient to silver a plate 2 inches square. The dish in which the silvering is done should only be a little larger than the plate It is better to let the solu­ tion stand and settle two or three days before being used. It is sometimes the case that a man's conscience hurts him for neg lectin? his wife, and her conscience hurts her because she doesn't feel more grieved at his neglect. The Wife of Rider Haggard. In appearance Mr& Haggard is charming; she has clear-cut features, a strung, self-reliant mouth, large, expressive brown eyes, and an abund­ ance of dark brown hair, writes Ada Chester Bond in a delightful sketch, with portrait, of the wife of the dis­ tinguished writer, in the Ladies' Home Journal She is above the medium height, with the strong, graceful figure that belongs to healthy, vigorous womanhood. Her personality is quite as interesting as is that of her well-known husband, whose strong, square forehead, firm lips and clear, deep eyes impress you with their owner's strength and orig­ inality. In stature Mr. Haggard is tall and erect, his voice low and melodious; he has beer, described as "that blonde and athletic gentle­ man." While at Ditchingham he is wont to appear in jacket and knick­ erbockers of tweed; thick, knitted stockings, and thick.servicable boots, bis whole appearance suggesting the typical English squire. The home life of this interesting family is beautiful in its simplicity and genuineness. The day opens with family pravers, which are read with gentle reverence by the master of the house, in the large square entrance hall, to which assemble not only the family and visitors, but all the ser­ vants. • The Howe Cat In a Nvw Capacity. The domestic cat has often been quoted as one of the readiest sources from which fractional electricity can be derived, but in its latest connec­ tion with electricity it plays an en­ tirely new part. A building in a Massachusetts town had been wired for electric lights, and it was found necessary to pass an electric wire from one side of a room to the other under the floor. This was likely to entail a serious loss of time and labor in excavating but an ingenious ruse got rid of the difficulty. One of the men hit upon the plan of making a hole at each end of the room. Then, taking a long piece of fine twine, he tied it around "the body of a live kit­ ten, which was placed through one of the holes into the space under the floor. By a little coaxing the cat soon found her way to the hole at the other end of the room, where the light was shining in. Thus the fine twine was passed through and was attached to a stronger piece, which was in its turn drawn through, and made the means of drawing the wire right through the opening. ; A Crowded Spot. . % The Manderaggio, which is one of the quarters of Valetta,: the capital of the Island of Malta, is one of the most crowded spots on earth. In Valetta itself the proportion is 75,- 000 to the square mile, but in the Manderaggio 2,544 people dwell on a surface,twoacre&and a half in extent, and this gives not less than 636,000 to the square mile, or 1,017 to the acre. In the most crowded town in Britain, Liverpool, the proportion is only 116.4 to the acre. BEN BUTLEH SAVED BY PRAYER.* A .Provision of the Faculty muea ^ Him in Good Ntead. " a Now that Geo. Butler's familiar ^ form his gone from us, says a Boston,, paper, reminiscences of his boyhoods ' * days before ftfs indomitable will audi" • courage had won for him the fame ofC I' his manhood are in order. Among^l others the following amusing story told of his college life: V . "Ben" received his college educa--? • tion in Colby, and is remembered ink^ i Waterville as a good-natured, stu- J dious youth and rather fond of a joke. ? l ̂ / One day there came tD that small, Maine village a jeweler from' Boston, who started a shop in the neighbor- ( hood of the college. He bad rather a, V good opinion of himself, and by hia^V?' arrogance managed to bring upon his * ? • ^ Wal I rrrnorftd hnntl »Ws* t«A # ikit COl* ^ ̂ "7^ • 1 ' .* J .• WHEN the devil sent trouble into the world, the Lord sent work, that the people might have a chance to I forget their trouble. well-greased head the ire of the lege boys. One night his sign disappeared, and . . ? the jeweler, suspecting the collegians, , , /I complained to the faculty and a search of the college dormitory was ;» j immediately Instituted. ? As luck would have it "Ben" was the guilty voutb, and hearing the rac- ulty making the rounds, and having v 1'*^ the sought-for sign on the wall of hiss* V room, with its flaring letters staring » % g him in the face, the ' affafir looked rather serious. But his quick wit came to his re$i cue, and hastily kindling a fire he| thrust the sign into the grate and|¥f smiled at his own ingenuity. But,£".~ alas! the sign was tough and burned® all too slowly, while the search partyi^a could be heard drawing nearer and? nearer. What was to be done? 1-4^4,% Suddenly there poppedj into Ben's mind a regulation of the faculty, infe^SI^ the terms of which it was forbidden * " that a student's room should be en­ tered for any purpose whatsoever while its occupant was engaged in' ^ prayer. So, dropping, on his knees; behind the door, Ben commenced a|V X\4 long petition, telling his room-mate^ , to tend the fire and to pull his coat-', ff tails when all vestiges of the jeweler's.; '* .jjf sign had disappeared. Soon.steps were heard in , the. haH^t^i? H which stopped in front of his room. What was that that reached them through the keyhole? A voice " 1' raised in earnest prayer, seeking for­ giveness for sins past, present, and future, for blessing on those present and those who would fain be within. Meantime the sign was slowly but surely burning, while the labor Of his exertions was bringing out the per­ spiration on Ben's brow. The faculty waited with bowed heads for the conclusion of his ap­ parently interminable pray6r. At last it came, and at the follow­ ing words the door was opened, ex­ posing the pious inmates just rising their knees; "And an unrighteous generation 4 shall seek a sign, but no sign shall be given them." ; Where Was the Garden of Eden? The true site of the Garaen of Eden has been the subject of almost endless controversy and conjecture. The three continents of the Old World have been gone over by the theologians and antiquarians in a vain search for its most probableloca- > tion. From, China to. the Canary ' Islands and from the Mountains of the M0011 to the coast of the Baltic, each country has been the subject of * careful search. Every spot in Europe, Asia, and Africa that could possibly Hf- be the place designated in the first it chapter of Genesis has been examined and vet, says the Philadelphia Press,' no plaee has been found that corre­ sponds even in the slightest degree with the scriptural account of the first abode of the progenitors of the human race One of the most ancient opinions, that given by Josephus, Is , that it was in the country which lies 9 between the Ganges ana the Nile. This view imagines Eden as being a very widely-extended country, em- l racing all that vast territory which is bounded on the east by the Indus and on the west by Egypt's great water-course. As the "Garden" is 5i said to have been "to the eastward r | in Eden," Josephus places it indefl- Jj nitcly In the valley of the Euphrates. , Von Hammer, the famous oriental J scholar, places it in Bactria; others * locate it in Babylonia, at the in­ fluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris. Capt. Wilford, a profound student of Eastern antiquaries, has labored for years to locate Eden in Bamian, south of the Keosh Mount­ ains. Buttmau puts it down as being in India: Heidcr, in his "History of Mankind," identifies it with the present vale of Cashmere. Many oriental sects believe it was on the island of Ceylon, while the Greeks place it at Beth Eden, on Lebanon. Lastly, many eminent scholars regard the whole story as being a gigantic myth. • A Tlioroughiwced Rogue. A quack named Daniel supplied Italian apothecaries with a wonder­ ful gold powder called "usufur," which was supposed to have aston­ ishing medical value. Pretending > that the' art of compounding this usufur with other drugs was a mys­ tery known only to himself, he di­ rected his patients not to permit the apothecaries to mix the ingredients ( of his prescriptions, but to buy them, including the usufur, and bring them , to him for putting together. He mixed the drugs, omitting the usufu^, in which manner he succeeded in hav-. ing restored t£ him the gold powder, ; high. pow- aer soon became famous* and the quack finally offered to teach Duke ' Cosmos II. of Florence, the. art of ! » making gold. The Duke paid Dapiei * : 20,000 ducats for the secret, an^thei swindler fled to France with n»°a»y« : •• j.:' ^ A clever application of the eioctri-i cal current ha* been made in France.' - At an Exposition in PUris ah] rtafetru^ ment for measuring electrically the 1 exact degree of - acidity qf any stfu- ; tion was showii. •« Two platfes Wert I placed in a trough, through which , acidulated malt was passed, con­ nected to a delicate amperemeter, ,; '• and the readings on the Instrument was a correct record of ;the degree pf Yv acidity. An alarm bell was arranged to ring at either of the extreme al->; lowable limits. 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